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FOR the most part, it is by negative results that the metropolis knows the value of the N.S.W. Fire Brigades. Any city at all is potentially the scene of a new Great Fire, in spite of the resistance of modern buildings; but the speed and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Assessors have not yet completed their examination of the scene of last Saturday morning's big fire in Hardwicke House. York-street, city,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Greenethorpe residents were awakened at 4.30 a.m. by the crackling of fire. It was found that the refreshment rooms occupied by Frank Graphos, and owned by Mrs, H…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The first stream-lined fire engine containing in the one machine a 600-gallons fire pump,a 40ft, extension ladder hook ladders, an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SPEEDING to one of the biggest fires in Sydney for many years, 80 firemen on 14 engines rushed £25,000 worth of equipment to a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FIRE-OFFICER LATNAN was standing on the roof of a blazing factory at Moorgate yesterday when the tiles fell in, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Damage amounting to at least £100,000 was caused by a fire, the largest in the metropolitan area for two years, which destroyed the upper portion of Hardwicke House, 46-48…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A woman and her five-year-old son, who were asleep in a room over a shop at 225 St. John's-road, Glebe, were awakened early yesterday morning by neighbours shouting that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A view of two of the gutted stories of Hardwicke House. 46-48 York-street, where a fire early on Saturday morning caused damage estimated at at least £100,000. Photographs by air mail of the latest…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fire Headquarters' new 120-feet extension ladder paid for its cost (£6000) many time over at its first appearance, early Saturday morning, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Officer Latnan was standing on the roof of a blazing factory at Moorgate last night, when the tiles fell in and he dropped 70 feet down a lift shaft, through which flames were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →AFTER making frantic efforts at rescue, the mothers of five dren were forced to stand and watch them burn to death when a wooden hut caught fire and was destroyed at St…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Every effort is being made to make the world's largest and fastest ship, the Queen Mary, also the safest vessel afloat. Fire-resisting paint, which has been used…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A woolshed owned by Mr. C. F. Carter, of Wea station, was destroyed by fire. The fire was discovered by Mr. C. Cox, who was mustering sheep in an adjoining paddock,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The secretary of the Fire, Accident and Underwriters' Association has replied to the Guigong Council's representations for a reclassification of the town on account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →With the object of making the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary as fire-proof as possible, fire-resisting paint, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIXTY THOUSAND acres of timber and pasture country at Kojonup were burned out during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SURROUNDED by flames and half- choked by smoke when a fire broke out while they were working at the Apex Knitting Mills, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At an inquiry into the fire which destroyed the old Royal Hotel at Newbridge on February 9, the coroner said that he was unable to decide whether the fire orignated accidentally…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Awakened by the crackling of burning woodwork, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shead found that their six-roomed weatherboard home in Hill-street, was on fire. They seized their three…
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